today’s yahoo searches, red center pulls, ellis dunklebarger, and campy goes back to the early 90s for bad design ideas.
well, i am back from germany, and whew, what a trip that was. i ate at least 15 lbs of saurkraut, and the smell is still oozing from my pores. so i was checking my email today, (as one does) and saw the top ten ‘yahoo’ searches of the day. frankly they seemed a bit dubious, like alberto gonzales at john ascroft’s death bed, but funnier.
here they are:
1. marilyn monroe 2. the company TNT (what is that) 3. lead poisoning 4. beowolf (um, what top 10 is this?) 5. chelsea handler (who is that) 6. franka potente (again, who is that) 7. frittata recipes 8. deep brain stimulation (i use my finger) 9. jabberwocky (i find it hard to believe that a poem that old is in the top 10) and lastly stevie wonder
historical note: ride lugged was #11.
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next item of bidness: local frame builder ellis dunklebarger is trading me some services (ie i have access to a sandblaster and he dont) for some braze-on work. 30 bucks gets me internal brake wiring, fender and rack mounts, a canti hanger, centerpull studs, and generator wiring routing things for my fork. as soon as he gets a web site, i’ll post it. his cross frames are amazing. (lugged too)
only question: what color the bike?
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cyclesport junkies have already seen this, but those of us in the dark ages havnt.
specialized has made a high tech (ha) new centerpull that would look great if it wasnt red and was maybe a little bigger, clearance wise. are we seeing the rebirth of yet anouther french idea? i hope campy goes to huret derailluer threading next year, to save weight.
the clearances arnt too bad, maybe a 28…
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honda wisely scrapped the super plastic-y looking bumpers on the ‘element’ and campy bought up all the left overs and farted this thing out. could it look any more like a walmart/honda/campy collaboration? the gold pivots are ultra tacky with the matt black knuckles.
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sram on the other hand, saved weight by using steel, ha, for their new cassette, which looks nice and easy to clean to boot.
the back of the cassette is one big sheet of steel. kinda hot.
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early 90s cause of mavic zap electronic shifting, and cause campy went through as super ugly period where they powder coated some grouppos.
BMX brakes on a cyclosporto bike…? what’s next? Gyros for barspins?
remember, center pulls are about 60 years old, and only after the frenchies started to braze them to nice cyclotouring bikes was the u-brake born, and thus the bmx brake…
http://www.beowulfmovie.com/
um, hi, james. popculturebloggerwhore here to inform you of franka potente (http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/runlolarun/photos/images/fp-2.jpg) only hot and smart german actress (please don’t tell me you didn’t see run, lola, run). she was also jason bourne’s girlfriend, until she got knocked off, but I wouldn’t expect you to have seen any of the bourne trilogy, you spurner of all that is mainstream you.
sorry i just know her as that girl who only looks hot when you have been drinking heavily in someone’s dorm room at NECI in burlington. i like how you people actually thought i wanted to know why/who these people were. but marilyn monroe at #1 what the shit?
Hi–found my way here from John G’s blog. Looks like you all (yes, I’m south of the Mason-Dixon) do some great dirt-road rides.
Can I just make a fool of myself right off by admitting that I like the red centerpulls? My Univega is black, silver, and red, and if those things cleared 32s and fenders, I’d be looking for a set. Maybe that big Belgian guy with the tree-trunk legs could spare some.